Positions: I am always looking for candidates for Research Assistant, intern and
postdoc positions. Research Assistantship (RA) is a 1-2 year pre-PhD research
program (our past RA candidates have typically gone on to do PhDs from top
universities). Please email me directly if you are interested.

Dr. Vipul Goyal is a
researcher in the Cryptography and Complexity group at Microsoft Research Lab,
India. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Univ
of California, Los Angeles in 2009. At UCLA, he won honors such as a Microsoft
Research graduate fellowship, and, Google outstanding graduate student award.
He received his B.Tech. in
Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi in 2004.

Dr. Goyal was
recently named to the Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list of globally influential
people changing science and healthcare. His research has received media
coverage at popular science publications such as MIT technology reviews,
Slashdot, and, Nature news. He has given invited lectures at places such as
MIT, Princeton, and, IISc. He has served on program
committees of flagship crypto conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt
and TCC. He has published over 50 technical papers at top conferences in
cryptography such as at Crypto, Eurocrypt, STOC,
FOCS, and, ACM CCS. He also holds 2 international patents.

He is interested in
both theoretical and applied cryptography (and in theoretical computer science
in general). He has worked on topics such as cryptographic protocols,
man-in-the-middle attacks, zero-knowledge proofs, and, pairing based
cryptography.